The Nintendo Switch snatches the NES' record as the company's longest-lasting console, with 2,688 days without a successor
Jul. 12, 2024The Switch 2 inches ever-closer
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The Nintendo Switch is the longest-serving Nintendo console, with the company having never left this much time in between releasing one console and the next.
Nintendo hasn’t spent this much time supporting, fawning over, and profiting from one console since its very first, as every console generation after the NES became progressively shorter until the mammoth Wii era lasted a full six years, which makes some sense considering the Switch is the company’s best-selling console with 141 million units shifted. On the other side of the spectrum, the Wii U can finally say it’s won something as the console holds first place for Nintendo’s shortest console cycle of all time with 1,566 uninterrupted days on the market.
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